Asia Property Report, 29 Feb 2012 After a strong performance in January, it looks like the residential property market in Singapore is set to feel the affects of the cooling measures set forth in December. Experts are predicting prices will fall as much as 12 per cent in the next thre...

Yahoo! Singapore News, 28 Feb 2012 Singapore will witness "stiff competition" from Malaysia for businesses if the Economic Development Board does not up its game, said a hiring expert. Andrea Ross, managing director for professional recruitment consultancy Robert Walters for Singapore...

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Yahoo! Singapore News, 28 Feb 2012 Around 900 Singapore born citizens and 300 naturalised citizens give up their citizenship yearly, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean. According to CNA, the given renunciation rates were for the years between 2007 and 2011. Teo also offered reas...

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According to United Daily News yesterday, the Singaporean government suspended bilateral military cooperation with Taiwan to show its strong dissatisfaction after a recent visit by Minster of National Defense Kao Hua-chu (高華柱). The media reported that Kao was in Singapore for the Sing...

There are reports that Iran is offering barter deals — gold bullion for grain, and oil for rice and bananas. Reuters reports that last week, for the first time anyone can remember, an Iranian supertanker loaded with crude, the Delvar, anchored at Karimun Island in the Singapore Strait...

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Yahoo! News Singapore, 27 Feb 2012 Every morning, Chee Soon Juan drives his three children to school in his 19-year-old maroon Nissan, the exact model of which he has trouble recalling. He tells Yahoo! Singapore he still has a car now because it has long been paid for, along with his ...

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Yahoo! News Singapore, 15 Feb 2012 With the prospect of a drop in property prices looming large on the horizon, Singapore banks are already tightening their lending criteria. Prospective buyers of so called shoe-box units are already discovering that access to funding is proving to be...

Yahoo! News Singapore, 25 Feb 2012 Kenneth Chew was one of the many students who signed up for the NTU Alumni Club's (NTUAC) convocation package before graduation last year. The 25-year-old thought that paying $198 for his graduation gown, a plaque and a solo studio shoot was a bargai...

In a letter to the forum pages of the TODAY newspaper, MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC Hri Kumar has responded to Nominated Member of Parliament Eugene Tan's commentary titled, 'The value of a by-election.' Tan had written that a by-election should be called "within a reasonable time, or ...

Yahoo! News Singapore, 24 Feb 2012 The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) questioned on Wednesday the government's ability to plan the future for Singaporeans following the release of the budget for the incoming fiscal year. Leaders of the opposition party said features of the budget pa...

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SINGAPORE — A Singapore political website late Thursday apologised to the brother of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for a comment posted by a reader which it admitted was defamatory. Temasek Review Emeritus (TRE) said the comment was left on its website by the reader who was...

"Although he didn't specifically mention Singaporeans, he just said "in Singapore". He didn't mention Singaporeans per se; it could have been an unpleasant experience which he had. I can imagine why people are unhappy, and it could be a result of the way young people write. They could...

Former Reform Party candidate Alex Tan Zhi Xian has lodged a police report against the National University of Singapore (NUS) PRC scholar, Sun Xu, according to the Temasek Times blog. Sun is a final year student at NUS who recently caused an online furore after he commented on the mic...

The Singapore government has sponsored Sun Xu with scholarship beginning in 2006 to study in Raffles Junior College, and thereafter another scholarship to study in NUS, for a total of six years of free education and expenses fully paid for by the state. The question on everyone's lip ...

Yahoo! News Singapore, 22 Feb 2012 Former member of parliament for Hougang and Workers' Party member Yaw Shin Leong says he will not be appealing his expulsion from the party, therefore renouncing his seat in parliament. Speaker of Parliament Michael Palmer announced in a press statem...

On 19th Feb 2012, TR Emeritus (TRE) through our Singapore-based editor, was served with a Letter of Demand from law firm Drew & Napier, acting for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The letter said that on or about 16th Feb 2012, TRE published or caused to be published on TR Emeritus web...

Workers' Party's secretary general Low Thia Khiang has hit back at Ho Kah Leong who had written in to the local Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao's forum pages suggesting that Low should take responsibility for the recent Yaw Shin Leong saga. In his reply to Ho's letter, Low said his pa...

AFP - The Singapore restaurant formerly run by Spanish Michelin-starred chef Santi Santamaria, who died of a heart attack last year, will close in March, according to his daughter. The fine-dining SANTI -- located within the casino block in the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) resort -- will se...

As Agence France Presse (AFP) reported, the recently released annual budget report by the government of Singapore indicates that the Southeast Asian country will raise defence spending by 4.3 per cent in 2012. This represents an increase of SGD 504 million* over the 2011 budget and wi...

Singapore government expected a budget surplus of 1.27 billion Singapore dollars (1.01 billion U.S. dollars) for the fiscal year 2012, local daily Lianhe Zaobao reported on Sunday. The expected budget surplus is equivalent to about 0.4 percent of the city state's gross domestic produc...

SINGAPORE — Singapore's prime minister has demanded an apology from a political website for a post his lawyer said alleged nepotism in the appointment of the premier's wife as head of a state-linked firm. In a letter sent Sunday to editors of the website Temasek Review Emeritus, Prime...